It’s an incredible film that people need to see (really, the 1940 version needs to be seen as well). And we look at the gorgeous and noirish cinematography here and talk about how it lends to the overall tone of the film. We chat about Cukor and his working relationship with the women in his films. We look at Bergman paired with Charles Boyer and Joseph Cotten – not to mention Angela Lansbury in her screen debut – and what they bring to the table. We discuss the idea of gaslighting and why it makes for such a successful story here. We talk about this film and the 1940 version directed by Thorold Dickinson and how MGM almost gaslit that film out of existence.
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Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we continue our Ingrid Bergman series with George Cukor’s 1944 film Gaslight. In the end, she delivered a stellar performance and was very proud of the film and her role in it. She was nervous about playing such a weak-willed woman. She said this new ruling gives the word “legitimacy and credibility”, adding that abusers have long been warping victims’ “realities”, but that there had been no legal term for it.Ingrid Bergman took home her first Oscar for her portrayal of a woman who is psychologically broken down by her husband in Gaslight, but it was a film she was hesitant to star in. Speaking to The Independent, Charlotte Proudman, a leading human rights barrister who led on the case, said that she had used the word in previous cases, but that the judge had either not grasped the term, or not deemed it to be proper legal terminology. Take the recent High Court case in the UK’s family courts: ruling that a man had indeed raped and abused his wife, as well as convincing her she was bipolar, a judge used the word “gaslighting” in his written statement – the first time the word has been used in a published High Court document. Still, when used correctly, “gaslighting” can be a useful, even lifesaving, term.
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The thriller, which won Bergman an Oscar for Best Actress, was adapted from a 1938 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton, an English novelist and playwright who also wrote the source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope. The term refers to a very particular and insidious kind of abuse – the kind where a person is deliberately manipulated into questioning their own sanity. Now, Merriam Webster has chosen it as its word of the year for 2022. “You’re slowly and systematically being driven out of your mind.” Seventy-eight years later, the term “ gaslighting” has been used in a published High Court judgement for the first time ever, after a woman’s abusive partner gradually convinced her she had bipolar disorder. You’re not going out of your mind,” a detective tells Ingrid Bergman’s Paula in the climactic moments of the 1944 film Gaslight.
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